Portland faves and husband and wife team aka Viva Voce get some Paste Magazine love this week.

There is something special about Portland. If you live here you already know that. If you don’t you’ll know sometime soon. Commissioner Sam Adams, Portland’s Arts and Culture Czar, drew more than 300 people from the creative community last night to the Gerding Theatre to discuss in person his ideas for unlocking the city’s ‘creative capacity’ as he calls it. What does he mean by creative capacity? Read on…from Sam’s web site -
“What is Creative Capacity? Creativity helps make Portland a better place to live, a stronger competitor in the global marketplace and an incubator of innovation. An individual artist in a studio, a software firm start-up, a theatre company, a research and development arm, a manufacturing company—Creative Capacity is the ability of these endeavors ability to be more innovative, more creative and more successful. Strengthening this capacity to innovate has tremendous potential to contribute more to our community economically, socially and educationally. In the past few years, some have even argued this capacity is fundamental to our success in a globalized marketplace.

The Oregonian jumped on board too.

Good Magazine asked a musician to write and then sing a love song to the Portland tram…check it out.

Blitzen Trapper, flying the flag for PDX.

Portland’s very own Blitzen Trapper are going to have a summer of fun for sure. They are appearing at this year’s Sasquatch Festival at the Gorge, WA, after that they hit the road with The Hold Steady but first they get to be guest editors over at Paperthinwalls.com.

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New to PDX?.

Word on the street has it that Emek has moved to Portland.